Software Requirements Specification

for

Attendance Management System

Version 1.0 approved

Prepared by Varun Sharma and Gopesh Raval

Thadomal Shahani Engineering College

August 11, 2013

Copyright 1999 by Karl E. Wiegers. Permission is granted to use, modify, and distribute this document.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction................................................................................................................................1 2. Overall Description....................................................................................................................2 3. External Interface Requirements............................................................................................. 4 4. System Features......................................................................................................................... 5 5. Other Nonfunctional Requirements.........................................................................................6 6. Other Requirements.................................................................................................................. 7

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1.

Introduction

Problem Definition
The Attendance Tracking Management System takes input as students detail,no. of lectures attended,no.of practical conducted,no. of lectures conducted etc. The contents are intended to be utilized by the engineering class as guidelines for implementation and testing. At the end of the particular semester the system would provide with defaulters list which would help the respective teacher incharge to take particular action.

1.1

Purpose

The following document describes the functional and non-functional requirements for the Attendance Tracking System release version 1.0. The contents are intended to be utilized by the engineering class as guidelines for implementation and testing. This Software Requirements Specification document only covers the main system and does not describe the implementation of the database in which the main system interacts. All the requirements stated in this document are slated for implementation in version 1.0, unless otherwise specified.

1.2

Document Conventions

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1.3

Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions

The intended audience is the engineering class, who will be implementing and testing the Attendance Management System. Also, the document is to be utilized by the engineering professor to evaluate the softwares design and features.

1.4

Product Scope

The Attendance Management System will allow the teacher incharge to maintain a record of attendance of students in their respective classes from a PC. Also, the system will permit the teacher incharge to maintain all the essential details regarding a particular student . Furthermore, the program provides different modes to edit attendance,

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view statistics, and take notes on elements pertaining to attendance. The goal is to provide a professor with an easy, portable solution to attendance record maintenance and attendance statistics.

1.5

References

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2.
2.1

Overall Description
Product Perspective

The Attendance Management System is intended to replace the manual model of attendance record keeping by means of roll call and paper records. The roll call and paper records are replaced with a single interaction between the professor and the Attendance Management System. Professors will be able to view details regarding attendance of individual students on their PC and quickly maintain attendance records. The features expressed in this Software Requirements Specification document are intended to be fully implemented in version 1.0. The system will be developed in such a way to provide easy addition of enhanced features, which may be desired in subsequent versions.

2.2

Product Functions

The main feature of the Attendance Managemant System is that it keeps a record of all essentials details of each individual student.At the end of a specified period this system create a defaulties list as well as the non-defaulties list. Attendance Percentage of each student in every subject would be displayed in this list Also, the system allows the professor to view pertinent statistics on students attendance record for the specified class. Finally, another feature of Attendance Management System is its flexibility and ease of use.

2.3

User Classes and Characteristics

Professors A professor is a faculty member of Engineering College in Mumbai.There are n number of faculty members at the university and it is estimated that almost all faculty members will utilize the Attendance Management System. Professors will have multiple classes and interaction with the system will occur at multiple times throughout the day from multiple professors. The professor should be allowed to take, edit, and view attendance records at any desirable time. All professors have Internet access through their PC s . This provides the backbone of the Attendance Management System.

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Figure 1: Context diagram for Attendance Management System.

2.4
OE-1:

Operating Environment

The Attendance Management System shall function on the PC provided by the college. This entails the system to operate on the Windows CE platform. OE-2: The Attendance Management System shall interface between Windows CE designated to store the attendance records. The Web Server and Database Software have not been established at this point. OE-3: The Attendance Management System will record all the essentials details of each particular student. OE-4: Pentium 3.0 GHz or higher RAM must be 1 Gb or more and Hard Drive 10 GB or more

2.5

Design and Implementation Constraints

CO-1: The time allotted for this project will be limited to the end of this semester. CO-2: The language for the project will be Visual C++ and the development environment will be the embedded Visual C++ 3.0 environment. CO-3: All the HTML code for the user manual will conform to the HTML 4.0 standard. CO-4: Programming is done in JAVA, SQL, HTML.

2.6

User Documentation

UD-1: The system will provide an online user manual in HTML that describes the functionality and options available to the user. UD-2: The system will provide a hard copy of the user manual, which is identical to the manual outlined in UD-1

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2.7
AS-1:

Assumptions and Dependencies

The database mentioned within this Software Requirements Specification document is previously administered with the correct information needed by the Attendance Management System. AS-2: For attendance policies, since professors do not usually tabulate tardiness, it is assumed a student is either present or absent. The system also assumes that detail regarding each student would be made correctly. DE-1: Class data being used for setup and student recognition is dependent on information in a database administered outside of the capabilities of the Attendance Management System. DE-2: Statistics on student attendance is dependent on a professor s consistent utilization of the system for each class period.

3.
3.1
UI-1: aid in

External Interface Requirements

User Interfaces
The Attendance Management System shall provide details of students in the class to

taking roll. UI-2: These details can be clicked with a mouse in order to view a particular students attendance record. UI-3: All modifications to the database will be done through a keyboard. UI-4: Application will be accessed through a Browser Interface. The interface would be viewed best using 1024 x768 and 800 x 600 pixels resolution setting. UI-5: The program will provide a page that produces current statistics on class attendance

3.2

Hardware Interfaces

Server Side: H1: Operating System: Windows 7/xp ,Windows ME H2: Processor: Pentium 3.0 GHz or higher H3: RAM: 1 Gb or more H4: Hard Drive: 10 GB or more Client side: H5: Operating System: Windows 7 or above, MAC or UNIX. H6: Processor: Pentium III or 2.0 GHz or higher. H7: RAM: 1 Gb or more

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3.3

Software Interfaces

SI-1: Attendance Management System SI-1.1: This software will transmit the attendance of a class to a database on a machine via Internet. SI-1.2: The user will be allowed to modify attendance records at any time. SI-1.3: If the user forgets to transmit the information, the system will automatically send it for them at the end of the class. SI-2: Database The Attendance Management System will communicate with the database to perform the following options. SI-2.1: To allow a user to enter attendance. SI-2.2: To allow a user to modify attendance. SI-2.3: To allow a user to query a system to gain statistics concerning individual and class attendance.

3.4

Communications Interfaces

CI-1: The security of a user must be consistent through the use of passwords. CI-2: The Attendance Management System will communicate to the database through Internet.

4.

System Features

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4.1

System Feature 1
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Stimulus/Response Sequences
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Functional Requirements
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4.2

System Feature 2 (and so on)

5.
5.1
PE-1:

Other Nonfunctional Requirements

Performance Requirements

The program must be able to be run concurrently by multiple professors. During peak times of usage (9:00 AM to 2:00 PM). PE-2: Transmission of roll data shall occur in under 5 seconds. PE-3: Acknowledgement of roll received (confirmation) shall be returned within 8 seconds. PE-4: Queries upon the database shall be performed in less than 5 seconds. PE-5: Upon start of the roll program, roll information shall be displayed on the instructor s Pocket PC within 10 seconds. PE-6: Email messages to absent students shall be sent within one hour of the conclusion of a class. PE-7: The program shall support taking roll for class sizes of up to 100 students. With a maximum class size, performance must still conform to all performance requirements.

5.2

Safety Requirements

System would be protected by a password. As it is connected via LAN and MAN an antivirus has been installed on system for its safety purpose

5.3
SE-1:

Security Requirements
An instructor shall permitted to view and edit absence information in the database for only his/her classes. In order to take roll or edit database information, the instructor shall be required to password. This password shall be stored on the instructor s PC after initial entry in order that it must only be entered once. Passwords shall be stored in an instructor database and verified upon each session of or database modification. An instructor shall be allowed to change his/her password only by supplying his/her

SE-2: enter a SE-3: roll SE-4:

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existing password. The updated password shall be stored in the instructor database and on the instructors PC.

5.4

Software Quality Attributes

The system shall be available to all instructors through Information Systems normal hours of operation. Due to the use of a wireless network, reliability of the system at all times is guaranteed. However, overall reliability of the system and roll information

Availability-1: during their Reliability-1: not shall be Reusability-1: Robustness-1: the instructor Robustness-2: instructor to

achieved through the process of database manipulation. The system shall be able to be reused for each new semester. If no network connection can be established to receive the roll information, shall be allowed to enter roll later. If a network connection is lost during roll, the program shall allow the

transmit roll information at a later time. Updatability-1: The system shall allow for addition or deletion of instructors, students, and classes while incorporating new semesters. Usability-1: Usability of the system shall be achieved through an online help pages and an introductory training session for all instructors upon installation of the program on their Pocket PCs.

5.5

Business Rules

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6.

Other Requirements

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Appendix A: Glossary
SRS: Software Requirement Specification RAM: Random Access Memory OS: operating system DB: Databases PHP: Personal Home Page SQL: Structured Query Language HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

Appendix B: Analysis Models

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Appendix C: To Be Determined List